Button mounting for garments



Oct. 6, 1925- 1,556,455

a. A. RIPLEY BUTTON MOUNTING FOR GARMENTS Filed Se t. 30. 1924 PatentedOct. 6,1925,

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. BIPLEY, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

BUTTON uoomme ron amateurs... 5

Application filed September 80, 1924. Serial No. 740,707.

To all whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon A. RIPLEY,

a citizen of the United States of America,

residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas 5 and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Button MountingsforGarments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in buttonmountingsfor gar ments.

The method of fastening buttons on shirts, waists and other garments,which is now in commoii use, is not such as to prevent the buttons frombeing rather easily torn off.

For this reason very few garments survive the laundry, without losingone or more buttons.- It is the common practice to sew through the clothand a single thickness of tape applied tounderside of the edge of thegarment. I

The object of my invention is two-fold and is first, to mount the buttonso that it cannot be torn off even under themost severe.- cond1t1ons;and second, to provide such a.

A construction designed to carry out the invention will'be hereinafterdescribed together with other features of the invention.

The invention will be more readily understood from a reading of thefollowing specification and by reference to the accompanying drawings,in which an example of the invention is shown, andwherein:

Fig. 1 is a view of a portionof the front of a shirt broken away to showbuttons momted in accordance with this invention,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view on-the line2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings the numeral 10 designates the front of a shirt and 11 ahem which-is folded under along the edge of the fabric. A facing strip12 has a narrow hem 13 along row of stitches 14.

mounting and practice the invention .withits outer edge complementary tothe hem 11. The facing strip may be made oftape or other material and isapplied to the under or inner sideof the fabric with its hem 13 incontact with the hem 11. These hems are united along the edge of thegarment by a The strip 12 has a hem 15 folded inward along its inneredge and contacting with the fabric along the hem-fold by a row ofstitches 16. The hem is provided with an extended ply 17 directed towardhems 11 and 13 and lying between the strip and the fabric. It will beseen'that to produce this 'extension'it is merely necessary to employ Ia strip or tape sufiiciently wide to provide the extension when the foldis made. It is customary. to provide the hem 16, but not the extensionand therefore only the additional material is required and the laborcost is not 7 increased. i

The button 18 is attached by passing the thread 19 through the fabric10, the extension 17 and the-strip 12, whereby it is attached to threeplies of fabric. -Actual tests have shown that the average person is unable to pull off a button mounted'in this manner. The extension providesthe rein-' forcing and is the essence of the invention.

Various changes and alterations may be made within the scope of theappended claim.

What I claim, is:

Asan article of manufacture, a garment having a button mountingcomprising a facing strip provided with a narrow hem along its outeredge stitched to the edge portion of the fabric of the garment at aclosure thereof and an inwardly folded wider hem. forming a freeextension of substantially onehalf of the width'of the strip and lyingbetween the strip and the fabric, stitching securing both hems of thestrip to the garment at their folded edges, and buttons mounted on thefabric and secured by threads passing through the three-ply provided bythe fabric, the free hem extension and the strip.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

GEORGE A. I LE

